On Tuesday, MPs voted to back a law forcing large companies to publish details of their gender pay gap.

Women currently earn 81p for every £1 a man earns – an estimated £200,000 over a lifetime in work – and, backed by Unite, Labour’s Sarah Champion introduced a new Bill to ensure bosses who employed more than 250 people had to publish details of the difference in hourly pay between men and women.

The Bill was passed by 258 votes to eight. By coincidence all eight MPs are men and Conservatives. They are: